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Corona Devo 3116

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In the backyard of my childhood home where I grew up is a deep ravine.  I could not know all of the wildlife that lives within the trees, ground, waters, and expanse of that backyard gully and creek, but over the years, (and explorations), we have seen deer, squirrels, raccoons and even foxes.  And once-in-a-while a coyote's howl can be heard.  On a recent hike down into the ravine, my niece and nephew found an old football in the woods, and they brought it up into the yard to play.  And play they did.  Their new-found toy found a home and many passes that afternoon. They had a new toy. Except... it wasn't theirs. Early the next morning, a coyote came trotting up out of the ravine, and he seemed to know exactly where he was headed... to the football that lay in the yard .  His football, apparently. The coyote approached the football, picked it up in his mouth, turned-tail, and proceeded to trot back over the hill and into the ravine.  My sister let o...
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Corona Devo 3115

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How can we appropriately explain Easter to someone... to ourselves ?  What do Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday  really  mean for us?  They mean  no more gloom for those who were in distress . And we've all been in distress.   The overarching "human dilemma"- distress  affects us all.  This world is not our home and nothing is quite (all the way) "right" here.  Even our best days have their cracks and flaws, and we are never  completely  at peace and  at rest  here on earth.  There is always some whisper of  distress  in our mind or heart, because even on the sunniest and smoothest times and people contain  distress . And what about personal- distress ?  Challenge/trial/sickness/injury/grief/doubt/loneliness/sin:  all of it  brings  distress  upon us. How about  sin- distress?   Heaven : we can't  get  there from here. Heaven is holy and ...
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Corona Devo 3114

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Would you believe that I have had three spills today?  Yep-- three different times I spilled  three different things, and really--can the pouring out of anything  be good? The first spill was while I was lifting a pickle jar out of the fridge, except that the lid was not tightened on the jar, and-- in a blink , pickle juice (and pickles!) covered the bottom shelf of my refrigerator and was running down the outside of the fridge door. The sticky green juice spilled out everywhere.   My second spill spawned from the first.   Part of my pickle-juice-cleanup-process involved spritzing my homemade simple (cleaning) solution of vinegar and water, but as I spritzed, the liquid ran low, and so I unscrewed the lid and poured in some more vinegar and filled the rest of the bottle with water, and then the phone rang, and life went in a different direction for a time.   But somehow my elbow found the uncapped spritz bottle, and now vinegar and water solu...
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Corona Devo 3113

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Who speaks to us today? Who speaks to our heart today?  The One who is holy and true . The One who has the key of David . ~~~ Are we burdened by our past?  He closes it. Are we anxious about our future?   He opens it!  “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.   This is the message from the one who is holy and true,  the one who has the key of David.   What he opens, no one can close;  and what he closes, no one can open...  ~Revelation 3:7 Sometimes, we don't feel strong enough in our faith to be called God's children.  Some days we don't feel strength at all. Is it today? Listen to what the Lord says  to us today.  Listen to what God sees in us today.  Listen to what God promises and prophesy's into us today and for tomorrow--because we are obeying His word and not denying Him. “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close.  You hav...
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Corona Devo 3112

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Have you ever ordered a "sampler plate" while out to dinner at a restaurant?  If it is a sampler plate of appetizers, it might include potato skins, mozzarella sticks, and wings...all of the most popular flavor offerings, but a small (sample!) portion of each, rather than a full order: a sampler plate . A sampler supper-plate at a German restaurant might include some weiner schnitzel, some bratwurst, some spaetzle, some red cabbage, and a potato pancake.  The top dishes on the menu, but in a smaller/sample/taster/preview portion size. Sampler plates are a great way to get a taste  of all the best things that a restaurant offers.   ~~~ I feel like this past week I have had a "sampler plate" of God's goodness and promised restoration.   The book of Amos in the Bible speaks of the waywardness of God's people, and it is Amos 's call to speak discipline and consequence into God's people because of their sin which has drawn them away from the Lord and H...
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